{"id":68144,"date":"2025-09-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/government-corruption-fuels-human-rights-crisis-in-south-sudan-independent-panel-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:00:00","slug":"government-corruption-fuels-human-rights-crisis-in-south-sudan-independent-panel-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=68144","title":{"rendered":"Government corruption fuels human rights crisis in South Sudan, independent panel finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Based on two years of independent investigations and analysis, the report reveals how oil and non-oil revenues are siphoned off through opaque schemes and politically connected contracts. Meanwhile, millions of South Sudanese are denied basic services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur report tells the story of the plundering of a nation: corruption is not incidental, it is the engine of South Sudan\u2019s decline,\u201d said\u00a0Yasmin Sooka, Chair of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is driving hunger, collapsing health systems, and causing preventable deaths, as well as fuelling deadly armed conflict over resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Diversion of funds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Upon gaining independence in 2011, South Sudan emerged from decades of brutal civil war with Sudan, carrying a legacy of divisive conflict, state repression and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years after independence, ruling elites still struggle for control over natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that the South Sudanese government\u2019s oil inflows alone have exceeded $25.2 billion since 2011, but hardly any money goes to essential services. Due to systemic corruption, the education, public health and justice systems are in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe diversions are not abstract budget failures \u2013 they translate into preventable deaths, widespread malnutrition, and mass exclusion from education,\u201d said Commissioner\u00a0Carlos Castresana Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree-quarters of child deaths are preventable \u2014 yet funds go to patronage and private pockets, not medicine or clean water and sanitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Multiple corruption schemes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The \u2018Oil for Roads\u2019 programme is just one of the corruption schemes described in the report. The programme intended to build infrastructure but failed to deliver promised roads. An estimated $2.2 billion has been channeled into political patronage networks through the off-budget scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The report also details schemes by Crawford Capital, a politically-connected company, in non-oil revenue collections, where little of the taxes reach government budgets even as illegal levies on humanitarian actors obstruct critical food aid operations.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A need for change<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A 2018 peace agreement promised structural change and an improvement of public financial management, but the reform has not been adequately funded or implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Prioritizing the implementation of certain reforms under the agreement is one of the many recommendations that the report lays out for South Sudan. The 54 recommendations are aimed at helping the country fulfil the population\u2019s basic needs, strengthen accountability, and end impunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen public revenue becomes private fortune, peace cannot hold. For the transition to survive, accountability for economic crimes and an investment in human rights are indispensable,\u201d said Ms. Sooka.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan was established by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2016. The\u00a0three Commissioners are not UN staff and do not receive payment for their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2025\/09\/1165862\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on two years of independent investigations and analysis, the report reveals how oil and non-oil&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1809,481,1684,1491,1059,186,2730,865,187,255,1028],"class_list":["post-68144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crisis","tag-finds","tag-fuels","tag-government","tag-human","tag-independent","tag-panel","tag-rights","tag-south","tag-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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